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Julia O. Martin papers
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS1137
Scope and Content
The majority of this collection contains correspondence, estimates, ledgers, proposals, and planting studies that provide a history of Julia O. Martin's career as principal of Julia O. Martin Landscape Design. Martin's resume and clippings offer details of her personal and professional life. Of special note are Martin's garden design sketches included in various planting studies.
Dates:
1937-1997, undated
Sarah G. Towery botanical watercolors
Collection
Collection number: ahc.VIS362
Scope and Content
This collection contains 35 of 36 original botanical watercolors painted by Sarah G. Towery for Ryan Gainey's (1944-2016) book The Gathered Garden (2012). The thirty-sixth watercolor, "Ryan's Rainbow," is not included in the collection. Gainey, a world-renowned garden designer and horticulturist, commissioned Towery to complete 36 botanical watercolors. Towery reproduced, in watercolor, plants Gainey selected which he considered to be important in...
Dates:
2012
Susan L. Hitchcock historic garden lantern slides
Collection
Collection number: ahc.VIS387
Scope and Contents
This collection contains 28 glass lantern slides of historic gardens and estate landscape plans primarily from the Southeast. Images include historic sites such as Biltmore Estate (North Carolina), Casulon Plantation (Georgia), Magnolila Gardens (South Carolina), and Middleton Garden (South Carolina). Also a part of the collection are corresponding typed index cards by an unknown author. The index cards, labeled "American Gardens," describe the slides with regards to American garden history...
Dates:
approximately 1930-1940
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- Decoration and ornament -- Plant forms 1
- Flowers -- History 1
- Flowers -- Southern States 1
- Flowers in art 1
- Formal gardens -- Design 1
- Gardens -- Design 1
- Gardens -- Georgia 1
- Gardens -- Georgia -- Atlanta 1
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- Historic gardens -- Southern States 1
- Landscape architects -- Georgia -- Atlanta. 1
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- Plants, Ornamental -- Georgia 1
- Watercolor painting -- 20th century. 1
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- Hitchcock, Susan L. 1
- Julia O. Martin Landscape Design 1
- Martin, Julia Orme 1
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